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Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Documentation

Last Published: 2019-11-04

Product(s): Appliances (3.2)

Platform: NetBackup Virtual Appliance

Getting to know the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance product description
2. NetBackup Virtual Appliance supported features
3. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance documentation
4. NetBackup Virtual Appliance 3.2 new features, enhancements, and changes
5. Known limitations of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance 3.2 release
6. Operational Notes for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance 3.2 release
Preparing to deploy the appliance
1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance product files (OVF templates)
2. NetBackup Virtual Appliance deployment methods
3. NetBackup Virtual Appliance deployment guidelines
  1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance initial deployment checklist
Deploying and configuring the appliance
1. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
2. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server
3. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance master server
4. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance CloudCatalyst
Post initial configuration procedures
1. About modifying the NetBackup Virtual Appliance settings
2. Adding a permanent license key if an evaluation license key expires
3. Managing license keys on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Appliance common tasks
1. Common tasks in NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Storage management
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
2. About OpenStorage plugin installation
  1. Installing the OpenStorage plugin
  2. Uninstalling the OpenStorage plugin
Deduplication pool catalog backup and recovery
1. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog backup policy
2. Automatic configuration of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog backup policy
3. Manually configuring the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog backup policy
4. Manually updating the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog backup policy
5. Recovering the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog
Network connection management
1. About IPv4-IPv6-based network support
2. Network settings for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
3. Configuring DNS and host name mapping for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
4. Setting the date and time on a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
5. Configuring static routes on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
6. Expanding the bandwidth on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Managing users
1. About managing NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
2. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance account types
3. Adding NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
4. Deleting NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
5. Adding NetBackup Virtual Appliance user groups
6. Deleting NetBackup Virtual Appliance user groups
7. Granting roles to NetBackup Virtual Appliance users and user groups
8. Revoking roles from NetBackup Virtual Appliance users and user groups
9. About user name and password specifications
  1. About STIG-compliant password policy rules
10. Changing NetBackup Virtual Appliance user passwords
11. About password management and recovery
12. About authenticating LDAP users
13. About authenticating Active Directory users
  1. Adding an Active Directory server configuration
  2. Unconfiguring Active Directory user authentication on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
14. About authentication using smart cards and digital certificates
15. About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users
  1. Adding a Kerberos-NIS authentication configuration on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
  2. Unconfiguring Kerberos-NIS user authentication on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
16. Generic user authentication guidelines
17. About user authorization on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
18. Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
19. Deleting NetBackup administrator user accounts
Using the appliance
1. About configuring Host parameters for your appliance on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About Copilot functionality and Share management
3. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
  1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance as backup host: component overview
  2. Notes on NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
4. About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
5. About mounting a remote NFS
  1. Mounting a remote NFS drive
  2. Unmounting an NFS drive
6. About Auto Image Replication from a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
7. Generating certificates
Monitoring the appliance
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance alerts
2. Setting up email notifications for a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
3. Setting up SNMP notifications for a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
4. Enabling and disabling Call Home from the appliance shell menu
5. Configuring a Call Home proxy server from the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
6. About SNMP
  1. About the Management Information Base (MIB)
7. About Call Home
  1. Understanding the Call Home workflow
  2. About the Product Improvement Program
8. About AutoSupport
9. About storage email alerts
Appliance security
1. About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About data security
3. About data integrity
4. About data classification
5. About data encryption
6. About SSL usage
7. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance intrusion detection system
8. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance intrusion prevention system
9. Major components of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance OS
10. OS STIG hardening for NetBackup Virtual Appliance
11. Unenforced STIG hardening rules
12. FIPS 140-2 conformance for NetBackup Virtual Appliance
13. Vulnerability scanning of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
14. About the appliance login banner
15. Setting the appliance login banner
  1. Creating the appliance login banner
  2. Removing the appliance login banner
16. Log Forwarding feature overview
Upgrading the appliance
1. About upgrading to NetBackup Virtual Appliance software version 3.2
2. Requirements and best practices for upgrading NetBackup appliances
  1. Upgrade time estimation
3. Pre-upgrade tasks for appliance upgrades
4. Methods for downloading appliance software release updates
  1. Downloading software updates directly to a NetBackup appliance
  2. Downloading software updates to a NetBackup appliance using a client share
5. Installing a NetBackup Virtual Appliance software update using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
6. Troubleshooting upgrade issues
NetBackup client upgrades with VxUpdate
1. About VxUpdate
2. VxUpdate repository management
3. Deployment policy management
4. Manually initiating upgrades from the master server using VxUpdate
5. Manually initiating upgrades from the client using VxUpdate
6. Deployment job status
Appliance restore
1. About appliance restore
2. Creating an appliance checkpoint from the appliance shell menu
3. Rollback to an appliance checkpoint from the appliance shell menu
4. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance factory reset
5. Factory reset best practices
6. How to factory reset the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Decommissioning and Reconfiguring
1. About decommissioning a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. Decommissioning a NetBackup Virtual Appliance with the media server role
Troubleshooting
1. About troubleshooting the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About contacting Technical Support
3. Determining the NetBackup Virtual Appliance serial number
4. About disaster recovery
  1. Recovering a NetBackup appliance master server using NetBackup catalog restore
5. About NetBackup support utilities
  1. NetBackup Domain Network Analyzer (NBDNA)
  2. NetBackup Support Utility (NBSU)
6. Troubleshooting NetBackup Virtual Appliance initial deployment issues
7. Error messages displayed on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
8. NetBackup status codes applicable for NetBackup Virtual Appliance
9. Installing an EEB
10. Rolling back an EEB using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
Appliance logging
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance log files
2. Viewing log files using the Support command
3. Where to find NetBackup Virtual Appliance log files using the Browse command
4. Enabling and disabling VxMS logging
5. Gathering device logs on a NetBackup virtual appliance
6. About forwarding logs to an external server
Commands overview
1. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
2. Logging on to the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
3. Using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
4. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu command views
Appendix A. Appliance commands
1. Appliance > Master
2. Appliance > Media
3. Appliance > ShowDedupPassword
4. Appliance > Status
5. Appliance > Configure
Appendix B. Manage commands
1. Manage > Software > Delete
2. Manage > Software > Download
3. Manage > Software > List
4. Manage > Software > Install
5. Manage > Software > Share
6. Manage > Software > Readme
7. Manage > Software > Rollback
8. Manage > Software > Cancel
9. Manage > Software > DownloadProgress
10. Manage > Software > UpgradeStatus
11. Manage > Software > VxUpdate
12. Manage > Storage > Show
13. Manage > Storage > Add
14. Manage > Storage > Create
15. Manage > Storage > Delete
16. Manage > Storage > Edit
17. Manage > Storage > Monitor
18. Manage > Storage > Move
19. Manage > Storage > Remove
20. Manage > Storage > Resize
21. Manage > Storage > Scan
22. Manage > OpenStorage > Install
23. Manage > OpenStorage > List
24. Manage > OpenStorage > Readme
25. Manage > OpenStorage > Share
26. Manage > OpenStorage > Uninstall
27. Manage > MountPoints > List
28. Manage > MountPoints > Mount
29. Manage > MountPoints > Unmount
30. Manage > License > Add
31. Manage > License > List
32. Manage > License > ListInfo
33. Manage > License > Remove
34. Manage > Certificates > Generate
35. Manage > Certificates > Delete
36. Manage > NetBackupCLI > Create
37. Manage > NetBackupCLI > Delete
38. Manage > NetBackupCLI > List
39. Manage > NetBackupCLI > PasswordExpiry
Appendix C. Monitor commands
1. Monitor > Uptime
2. Monitor > Who
3. Monitor > NetworkStatus
4. Monitor > Top
5. Monitor > MemoryStatus
6. Monitor > SDCS
7. Monitor > NetBackup
8. Monitor > Hardware
Appendix D. Network commands
1. Network > Configure
2. Network > Date
3. Network > DNS
4. Network > Gateway
5. Network > Hostname
6. Network > Hosts
7. Network > IPv4
8. Network > IPv6
9. Network > LinkAggregation
10. Network > NetStat
11. Network > NTPServer
12. Network > Ping
13. Network > SetProperty
14. Network > Show
15. Network > TimeZone
16. Network > TraceRoute
17. Network > Unconfigure
18. Network > WANOptimization
Appendix E. Reports commands
1. Reports > Deduplication
2. Reports > Process
Appendix F. Settings commands
1. Settings > Deduplication
2. Settings > LifeCycle
3. Settings > LogForwarding
4. Settings > NetBackup
5. Settings > Password
6. Settings > SystemLocale
7. Settings > Share
8. Settings > Sysctl
9. Settings > NetBackup DNAT
10. Settings > Notifications > LoginBanner
11. Settings > Security > Authentication > LDAP
12. Settings > Security > Authentication > ActiveDirectory
13. Settings > Security > Authentication > Kerberos
14. Settings > Security > Authentication > LocalUser
15. Settings > Security > Authorization
16. Main > Settings > Security > Certificate
17. Main > Settings > Security > STIG
18. Main > Settings > Security > FIPS
19. Settings > Alerts > CallHome
20. Settings > Alerts > SNMP
21. Settings > Alerts > Email
22. Settings > Alerts > Hardware
Appendix G. Support commands
1. Support > Checkpoint
2. Support > DataCollect
3. Support > Disk
4. Support > Errors
5. Support > FactoryReset
6. Support > InfraServices
7. Support > iostat
8. Support > Logs
9. Support > Maintenance
10. Support > Messages
11. Support > NBDNA
12. Support > nbperfchk
13. Support > NBSU
14. Support > Processes
15. Support > Reboot
16. Support > Service
17. Support > Shutdown
18. Support > Storage SanityCheck
19. Support > Storage Reset
20. Support > Test

NetBackup Virtual Appliance product files (OVF templates)

This section describes the NetBackup Virtual Appliance product files (OVF templates) for deployment. The product files are different in appliance roles, CPU, memory, and initial storage capacity.

You can download the NetBackup Virtual Appliance product file from the Veritas Entitlement Management System (VEMS). To access VEMS, click Licensing on the Veritas Support website.

Master server

Table: NetBackup Virtual Appliance master server product file

Product file	Description
Only one product file	CPU and memory 8 vCPUs, 16 GB memory Storage capacity The master server appliance does not have its own virtual storage. Disks One System disk at 512 GB for the OS (does not come out of your NetBackup license). One Base disk at 900 GB for the NetBackup catalog. Network interfaces Up to 8 virtual NICs

See About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance master server role.

Combined master and media server for remote offices and branch offices (ROBO)

For the combined master and media server, Veritas provides the automatic initial configuration option. By using a product file that supports this option, the deployment wizard passes in the appliance network and storage configuration as OVF properties during the deployment process. When the deployment is complete, the appliance network and storage are configured based on these values. Then, you need to perform the remaining steps from the appliance shell menu to complete the initial configuration.

Table: NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server product files

Product file	Description
Product file 1: `NetBackup_VA_ROBO_` `Vmware_GUI_` `<version>_EN.ova`	Note: This product file requires a VMware vCenter Server. How to perform initial configuration Automatic initial configuration CPU and memory 8 vCPUs, 16 GB memory Storage capacity Flexible. When you deploy the appliance, the initial capacity is 0.5 TB. After deployment, you can resize the storage up to 16 TB. Disks One System disk at 512 GB for the OS (does not come out of your NetBackup license). One Base disk at 614 GB for the storage. 102 GB of the disk space is used for storage metadata. Network interfaces Up to 8 virtual NICs
Product file 2: `NetBackup_VA_ROBO_` `Vmware_Static_` `<version>_EN.ova`	How to perform initial configuration Automatic initial configuration CPU and memory 4 vCPUs, 8 GB memory Storage capacity Fixed 2 TB storage. Disks One System disk at 512 GB for the OS (does not come out of your NetBackup license). One Base disk for the storage. The size is about 2.1 TB. Note: An additional 102 GB of disk space is created and used for storage metadata. Network interfaces Up to 8 virtual NICs
Product file 3: `NetBackup_VA_ROBO_` `Vmware_<version>_` `EN.ova`	Note: This product file requires a VMware vCenter Server. How to perform initial configuration Initial configuration from the shell menu CPU and memory 8 vCPUs, 16 GB memory Storage capacity Flexible. When you deploy the appliance, the initial capacity is 0.5 TB. After deployment, you can resize the storage up to 16 TB. Disks One System disk at 512 GB for the OS (does not come out of your NetBackup license). One Base disk at 614 GB for the storage. 102 GB of the disk space is used for storage metadata. Network interfaces Up to 8 virtual NICs

Product file

Description

Product file 1:

NetBackup_VA_ROBO_

Vmware_GUI_

<version>_EN.ova

Note:

This product file requires a VMware vCenter Server.

How to perform initial configuration
Automatic initial configuration
CPU and memory
8 vCPUs, 16 GB memory
Storage capacity
Flexible. When you deploy the appliance, the initial capacity is 0.5 TB. After deployment, you can resize the storage up to 16 TB.
Disks
One System disk at 512 GB for the OS (does not come out of your NetBackup license).
One Base disk at 614 GB for the storage. 102 GB of the disk space is used for storage metadata.
Network interfaces
Up to 8 virtual NICs

Product file 2:

NetBackup_VA_ROBO_

Vmware_Static_

<version>_EN.ova

How to perform initial configuration
Automatic initial configuration
CPU and memory
4 vCPUs, 8 GB memory
Storage capacity
Fixed 2 TB storage.
Disks
One System disk at 512 GB for the OS (does not come out of your NetBackup license).
One Base disk for the storage. The size is about 2.1 TB.
Note:
An additional 102 GB of disk space is created and used for storage metadata.
Network interfaces
Up to 8 virtual NICs

Product file 3:

NetBackup_VA_ROBO_

Vmware_<version>_

EN.ova

Note:

This product file requires a VMware vCenter Server.

How to perform initial configuration
Initial configuration from the shell menu
CPU and memory
8 vCPUs, 16 GB memory
Storage capacity
Flexible. When you deploy the appliance, the initial capacity is 0.5 TB. After deployment, you can resize the storage up to 16 TB.
Disks
One System disk at 512 GB for the OS (does not come out of your NetBackup license).
One Base disk at 614 GB for the storage. 102 GB of the disk space is used for storage metadata.
Network interfaces
Up to 8 virtual NICs

See About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server role.

Media server for data centers (DC)

Table: NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server product file

Product file	Description
Only one product file	CPU and memory 8 vCPUs, 16 GB memory Storage capacity No initial disk storage. After the deployment, you can create virtual disks to add to the virtual appliance from the virtualization software (VMware vSphere). Disks One System disk at 512 GB for the OS (does not come out of your NetBackup license). No Base disk for the storage. Note: Create at least one virtual disk to add to the appliance after the deployment is complete. Otherwise you cannot perform the initial configuration. Network interfaces Up to 8 virtual NICs

Product file

Description

Only one product file

CPU and memory
8 vCPUs, 16 GB memory
Storage capacity
No initial disk storage. After the deployment, you can create virtual disks to add to the virtual appliance from the virtualization software (VMware vSphere).
Disks
One System disk at 512 GB for the OS (does not come out of your NetBackup license).
No Base disk for the storage.
Note:
Create at least one virtual disk to add to the appliance after the deployment is complete. Otherwise you cannot perform the initial configuration.
Network interfaces
Up to 8 virtual NICs

See About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server role.

CloudCatalyst

Table: NetBackup Virtual Appliance CloudCatalyst product file

Product file	Description
Only one product file	CPU and memory 32 vCPUs, 192 GB memory Note: If you deploy the appliance with less than 192 GB of memory, a 1-PB cloud storage bucket is no longer supported. If you choose to deploy with less memory, you must also reduce the size of the storage bucket, and performance will vary. If you experience performance issues, adjust the memory or the storage bucket accordingly. Storage capacity 4 TB used as cloud cache. Disks One System disk at 512 GB for the OS (does not come out of your NetBackup license). One Base disk at 4.5 TB for the cache directory. Note: The additional .5 TB of disk space is created and used for storage metadata. Network interfaces Up to 8 virtual NICs

Product file

Description

Only one product file

CPU and memory
32 vCPUs, 192 GB memory
Note:
If you deploy the appliance with less than 192 GB of memory, a 1-PB cloud storage bucket is no longer supported. If you choose to deploy with less memory, you must also reduce the size of the storage bucket, and performance will vary. If you experience performance issues, adjust the memory or the storage bucket accordingly.
Storage capacity
4 TB used as cloud cache.
Disks
One System disk at 512 GB for the OS (does not come out of your NetBackup license).
One Base disk at 4.5 TB for the cache directory.
Note:
The additional .5 TB of disk space is created and used for storage metadata.
Network interfaces
Up to 8 virtual NICs

See About NetBackup Virtual Appliance CloudCatalyst.